Sentences with phrase «risks than singleton»

A twin pregnancy is a double blessing, but it can also carry greater risks than singleton pregnancies.

Not exact matches

I tried to match Johnson and Daviss as specifically as possible by adding in the additional variables of singleton (not twins or other multiples) and looking at Certified Nurse Midwives, who tend to care for lower - risk mothers than obstetricians.

While there is strong evidence about the risks of not breastfeeding, rates of breastfeeding in women who have given birth to more than one infant are lower than with singleton births.

It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.

These studies also found that women with twin gestations did not incur any greater risk of uterine rupture or maternal or perinatal morbidity than those with a singleton gestation (96, 97).

Learn about pumping your milk because you are at higher risk of having to spend a few days separated from your babies than if you were having a singleton birth.

By the late 1970s, a woman arriving on the labor and delivery floor of a U.S. tertiary care hospital with a nonmalformed, living, singleton fetus at term had a risk of intrapartum fetal death of 1 in 1000.1 At that time the U.S. cesarean delivery rate was approaching 15 %.2 Since then, the rate of cesarean sections has more than doubled, 3 but the intrapartum fetal death rate in major U.S. centers remains unchanged.

This new chapter includes advice for moms - to - be expecting twins, triples or quads, «from how much more you'll need to eat, to how many more symptoms you're likely to have, to the extra tests and risks involved in baking more than one bun at a time, and how labor and delivery might differ from a singleton birth,» she said.

«Twin pregnancies are at substantially higher risk of early preterm birth than singleton pregnancies and this risk is inversely related to sonographically measured cervical length at 20 - 24 weeks» gestation,» explained lead investigator Kypros H Nicolaides, MD, Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, London.